After the battle in the nursing home, Liupo and Atai were sent to the second stronghold in the northern part of the heaven for recuperation. Stronghold 2 is a hospital on the surface, and has an ordinary name - "Wenxin Hospital". There are heavenly soldiers, heavenly generals and heavenly medical officers stationed inside.
Under the care of medical officers, the grandfathers, Liu Po and Atai quickly recovered their strength.
Pianpian persuaded the sixth wife through her dreams to recruit those tiger masters as soldiers and horses. The sixth wife, who had been a temple priest all her life and had devout faith, had no need to persuade her. In her dream, she obliged Pianpian's request and even shouted that she would join the volunteer army to fight against evil spirits and monsters.
Pianpian took into account the old age of her sixth wife, so she arranged for her to work as a volunteer at Wenxin Hospital and be responsible for some logistical work. Artai naturally became a volunteer. Those old men who fought in the nursing home against the ghost soldiers and minions sent by the evil god of Shunde were afraid that they would become the targets of the ghosts again when they went outside, so they also volunteered to stay in the hospital as volunteers.
However, although they are volunteers in name, the Heavenly Medical Officer will still pay them privately. This high salary is more generous than ordinary jobs. Of course, it is also another incentive for Atai and the grandfathers to refuse.
As a result, Wenxin Hospital had a "Special Affairs Department", and Liu Po became the director of the Special Affairs Department as a matter of course.
Under the pressure of the sixth wife, Atai admitted that he was not actually selling stinky tofu and claimed that he borrowed the money from Aguan. In addition to being severely beaten by the sixth wife, she was also forced to practice writing talismans every day.
Atai was good at handwriting in Ben, and under the strict supervision of his sixth wife, he also mastered several talisman writing techniques. So one of his jobs was to provide Aguan with an endless supply of white flame talismans.
In the past two days, Aguan and Pianpian rode around on stone fire wheels during the day to recruit soldiers. At night, they returned to Wenxin Hospital and conducted sand table deductions with the heavenly soldiers, generals and monsters. They discussed the ceremony and divided the soldiers into two groups to attack all the way. Emperor Shunde, plans to rescue Aguan’s mother along the way.
Pianpian counted the troops, and there were a total of forty-six tiger masters and eighty-seven spirits. Pianpian also transferred six heavenly soldiers and generals from Wenxin Hospital. This was all the troops they had in this operation.
On the other hand, under Lao Tudou's secret investigation, he roughly pieced together the process of the Shunde Emperor's ritual ceremony - on the day of the ritual ceremony, believers will participate in Shunde temples from all over the country. The number of people is about a thousand, and the believers will come from different places. The route progresses, and finally they form a team on the road leading to the big temple on the mountain, and go up the mountain in a mighty way. Then there are three consecutive days of prayer meetings. After nightfall every day, it is the time when the evil spirit of Shunde absorbs the essence of the believers.
"We must defeat Shunde before tonight. If he absorbs the essence of a thousand people, it will be very difficult to take him back!" Pianpian said to Aguan.
In the afternoon, the two of them disguised themselves as believers as planned and found a Shunde temple that seemed easier to sneak into. They exchanged a few words with the believers in the temple and asked for two flags of the Shunde Emperor to be placed on the stone fire wheel. No one in this Shunde temple knew Aguan, so the two of them followed the temple's motorcade up the mountain, sitting in the back seat of the stone fire wheel, reluctantly waving the flag of the Shunde Emperor.
From the city to the foot of the mountain in the suburbs, more and more believers from all over the place gathered. Many young men who looked like jitong stood on the truck, naked to the waist in the cold wind, playing drums vigorously, with a heroic spirit. There are also groups of women, bringing their families and dependents, carrying large and small bags of offerings, walking among the crowds of people and vehicles.
Aguan followed a large number of believers up the mountain in a mighty manner, and when they reached the halfway point of the mountain, they finally saw the large Shunde temple. The big temple is four stories high and is magnificently decorated. There is a large square outside, and offerings tables have been set up in the square. In addition to flowers and fruits, there are also jars of black talisman water on the offering tables.
After a burst of noise, the believers on the mountain road happily stepped aside to make way for them.
Several jade boys carried a golden sedan, surrounded by specially dressed waiters, walking majestically. There is a statue of God placed in the sedan chair, which is Emperor Shunde.
But Aguan and Pianpian knew very well that what was sitting in the sedan was just a cold statue.
They saw the real Shunde Emperor sitting on another gorgeous gold sedan, guarded by a large group of evil gods and ghosts, following the statue dozens of meters in the air.
Emperor Shunde wore a yellow robe and a golden crown. His dark brown face was covered with wrinkles, and his hands exposed outside the yellow robe were withered and thin, also dark brown. Of course, the believers below cannot see the true form of Emperor Shunde in the sky.
Aguan and Pianpian also got off the Stone Fire Wheel and knelt on the roadside like other believers, peeking at the true form of Emperor Shunde passing by from time to time. Aguan vaguely felt that Emperor Shunde seemed to glance at him when he passed over his head, and his expression seemed to be smiling.
Then the procession of sedan chairs entered the square in front of the temple. The square was extremely lively, and everyone was busy helping to stack the offerings they brought on the offering table.
Aguan parked the stone fire wheel in the parking lot in front of the square, followed it into the square, and wandered around inside.
As he walked, he came to an offering table with a small tower stacked on top of it. If he looked carefully, he saw that they were square cakes. The cakes were black in color and filled with a strange odor similar to dark talisman water; in the small tower of cakes On another table next to the tower, there were bottles and jars of black talisman water.
"Eating Emperor Shunde's spiritual cake will protect you from all diseases; drinking Emperor Shunde's talisman water will prolong your life!" A group of believers gathered around the table, each holding a glass filled with talisman water and a piece of cake. I saw them taking a sip of talisman water and a bite of cake, as if they were tasting high-end black tea and delicious cakes.
"You're really sick..." Aguan suppressed his laughter and cursed in a low voice.
Several believers came over and raised their cups to Aguan. Aguan also raised his cup and took a few sips with a smile.
"Humph, you guy..." Pianpian rolled her eyes at Aguan. Her hands were empty, which seemed a bit abrupt.
"Well, it tastes good. After drinking the talisman water, my magical power will protect my body and make me invulnerable!" Aguan followed the example of a believer and tasted the dark drink in the cup with admiration.
The difference is that the dark drink in his cup is the Coke prepared earlier.
Pianpian also took an empty cup, snatched the water bottle from Aguan's backpack, and poured out some Coke so that no one would notice that she was the only one who didn't drink the Fu Shui.
"You're so smart, you actually thought of this trick." Pianpian took a sip of coke and looked at Aguan and smiled.
"I drank that talisman water, and it stinks better than shit..." Aguan whispered to Pianpian, then took out his cell phone and made a call.
The alley was quiet, except for a few wild cats wandering on the road.
The door of the Shunde temple where Yue'e was imprisoned was closed tightly. The large group of people had just set off in a mighty manner, leaving two or three elderly believers to stay and guard.
Artai waited at the corner of the alley for a long time, but there was no movement. At this time, his cell phone rang, it was Aguan calling.
"Are you here already? My idiot believers here have already set off. It's very deserted now. There aren't many people..." Artest and Aguan talked for a few more words, hung up the phone, and gestured toward the van parked on the roadside. made a gesture.
The car door opened and Liu Po jumped out of the car. Lao Tudou, the green-eyed fox and the two bird spirits also got out of the car one after another. There was also a medical officer on standby in the car.
Everyone filed forward and came to the door of Shunde Temple. Lao Tudou led the spirit to sneak into the temple to explore the way, while Artai knocked on the door. It took a long time before an old believer opened the temple door. .
"What are you doing?" asked the old believer.
"We're here to offer incense." Artest replied unceremoniously.
"We are not open today, please come back another day..."
"Ah, Luo, get out of the way!" Atai pushed hard against the temple door, trying to force his way through.
The old believer was startled. He was about to shout, but suddenly his vision went dark and he fainted. It turned out that it was the green-eyed fox who cast a spell on the old believer from behind.
"You monkey grandson, you know how to mess around!" Sixth Po said Atai, and the grandfather and grandson walked into the temple and carefully closed the temple door.
In front of the altar table in the temple, there were also two believers lying down, both of whom had been charmed by the green-eyed fox.
"Monsters, ghosts, evil spirits!" The sixth wife couldn't help cursing as she looked at the black talismans all over the walls and the jars of strange black talisman water on the table.
